so minerals in the water from decaying carbon based life forms don't count as nutrients?
and you just drop seeds in water and that's how they grow in dwc? with no medium right? no clay pebbles, no net pot?
They start in clay pebbles yes, but no part of the plant in that medium is taking up nutrients. All root mass is suspended in water; that is being aerated heavily. Any root growth in the medium is more like a stem. Hard and wooden. every bit of root mass taking up nutrients is SUSPENDED in water! ZERO medium. If thats not the case i dont believe it falls under "deep water culture".
Question:
So are you saying that a hydro system modeled after your chart will out perform a human engineered model of deep water culture? And that your reasoning for this is that it is because my version does not occur naturally?
Only beating this horse because that was your arguement for not using a dark period. No actual data or experience was provided.
Because what im saying is that in nature, deep water culture does not occur (especially in the process it does in my garden). No where on your chart do I see the makins of a natural hydro system that will out perform my garden, thus proving my previous point that just because something doesnt occur naturally, doesnt mean it cant imorove quality in some aspect.
Decaying carbin based life forms, ok sure a plant could consume these. But now we are getting hypothetical. Give me an example of cannabis growing like this naturally. It doesnt.
But lets get off the DWC for a minute bexause thats a tangent in the argument i was trying to make.
Humans can manipulate conditions to extremes that would never occur naturally, to improve the smokability of cannabis.
Left over chlorophyl does not get pulled from buds naturally, and yet im guessing you cure your buds right? Probably in a natural mason jar.
Or re-vegging? This doesnt occur with cannabis in the wild does it? Yet its an effecient and widely used tactic to keep phenotyoes alive.
So given the fact that non of these things occur naturally, yet have been proven to increase quality, then perhaps a 72 hour dark period may do something to improve the process as well.
Some people say that a couple of days of darkness before the chop makes for a smoother smoke; I've never done it before. I guess it doesn't really matter, though.
